metadata [IO Islamic 259] طبقات شاهجهانى

Ṭabaḳât-i-Shâhjahânî .

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 705 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 259 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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Ṭabaḳât-i-Shâhjahânî (طبقات شاهجهانى ).

A large collection of succinct biographies of all the great Sayyids, Shaikhs, Saints, Ḥakîms, ‘Ulamâs, and poets, who flourished from the beginning of Tîmûr’s reign down to the reign of the emperor Shâhjahân, compiled about A.H. 1046 (A.D. 1636, 1637) by Muḥammad Ṣâdiḳ, and dedicated to Shâhjahân (A.H. 1037-1068=A.D. 1627-1658), comp. Rieu iii. p. 1009; Elliot, History of India, vii. p. 133. It is divided into ten ṭabaḳât (every one containing three bâbs), viz.:

Ṭabaḳah I: Famous men in Tîmûr’s reign (A.H. 770-807 =A.D. 1369-1405), on fol. 6a (bâb II, on fol. 23b; bâb III, on fol. 30a).

Ṭabaḳah II: Famous men, who lived under Mirzâ Mîrânshâh and died under Sulṭân Shâhrukh (A.H. 807-850=A.D. 1405-1447), on fol. 40a (bâb II, on fol. 63a; bâb III, on fol. 75b).

Ṭabaḳah III: Famous men under Sulṭân Muḥammad bin Mirzâ Mîrânshâh and Mirzâ Ulughbeg bin Mirzâ Shâhrukh (A.H. 850-853 =A.D. 1447-1449), on fol.85b (bâb II, on fol. 95a; bâb III, on fol. 102b).

Ṭabaḳah IV: Famous men, who lived and died under Sulṭân Abû Sa’îd Gûrgân (A.H. 854-873=A.D. 1450-1469), on fol. 109a (bâb II, on fol. 118a; bâb III, on fol. 124a).

Ṭabaḳah V: Famous men, who lived and died under Mirzâ ‘Umar Shaikh Bahâdur, son of Sulṭân Abû Sa’îd Gûrgân (A.H. 873 - 899 =A.D. 1469-1494), on fol. 133b (bâb II, on fol. 147a; bâb III, on fol. 156b).

Tabaḳah VI: Famous men under Sulṭân Bâbar (A.H. 900-937 = A.D. 1495-1530), on fol. 161b (bâb II, on fol. 179b; bâb III, on fol. 187a).

Ṭabaḳah VII : Famous men under Sulṭân Humâyûn (A.H. 938-963 = A.D. 1531-1556), on fol. 192a (bâb II, on fol. 205b; bâb III, on fol. 215b).

Ṭabaḳah VIII: Famous men under Sulṭân Akbar (A.H. 963 -1014 = A.D. 1556-1605), on fol. 223b (bâb II, on fol. 261b; bâb III, on fol. 284b).

Ṭabaḳah IX: Famous men under Sulṭân Jahângîr (A.H. 1014-1037 = A.D. 1605-1627), on fol. 348a (bâb II, on fol. 369a; bâb III, on fol. 380a).

Ṭabaḳah X: Famous men, contemporary with Sulṭân Shâhjahân, from A.H. 1037-1046 = A.D. 1627-1636, 1637, on fol. 395a (bâb II, on fol. 415b; III, on fol. 424a).

After fol. 434 two leaves are missing. Worm-eaten and slightly injured throughout.

No date.

Beginning:

آغاز سخن بسپاس و ستايش خداوند بى نياز الخ

No. 259, ff. 435, ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated heading on fol. 1b; size, 73/4 in. by 41/4 in.